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Optimal shapes in condensed matter and biological systems
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Lecture course in summer semester 2015 (2
credit points)
in collaboration with the Berlin
Mathematical School [2]
Lecturer:
Dr. Myfanwy
Evans, Technical University Berlin
Dates:
June 8, 11, 15, 18, and 29
July 2,
6, and 9
Time:
Monday, 10.15 - 11.45
h
Thursday, 10.15 - 11.45 h
Exception for Thursday,
July 9: 14.15 - 15.45 h
Place:
ER 164 (TU Berlin,
ER-building)
First lecture:
Monday,
June 8, 2015
Course Outline:
The
course will contain an introduction to "optimal" shapes in
physics. The central theme will revolve around a set of space-filling
surfaces called triply-periodic minimal surfaces, such as the Gyroid
minimal surface, and their appearance throughout synthetic and
biological matter.
We will explore techniques to describe these
and other complicated structures, reasons why such negative curvature
structures form, and what functions these structures have in the
biological world.
From this central theme, we will branch out
into topics such as surface area minimisation, symmetry, biological
membranes, entanglement, polymer self-assembly, hyperbolic tilings,
brilliant butterflies and wrinkly skin.
Lecture
Material:
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